Feds Own More Vehicles Than Hertz (your tax dollars at work #2)

(AP) | LARRY MARGASAK

[Joe Hadenuf]

Are government employees that routinely drive these cars drug tested on a random basis?

[scholar]

So, you are agreeing with the fact that MOST of the employees of a particular AGENCY do not/are not drive government vehicles ?

Sorry I can't quote numbers like the dim bulb who wrote this article--but yes, from my knowledge working for the feds, this article is a total distortion of reality. Most federal employees are severely restricted in their use of government owned vehicles.

Just an another point here--MOST of the employees at any agency are secretaries, clerks and other lower level employees. Anyone who thinks they are driving government cars are smoking the wrong kind of herb. It cost me a significant portion of my monthly pay just to get back and forth to the Dirksen Building.

[scholar]

I wonder how many of them are gas guzzling SUV's ???

The only gas guzzlers on the street would have been something confiscated by the DEA. Everything else that the government purchased was the cheapest crap they could buy depending on the bids.

Please refer to my previous post. I have some serious problems with the feds--that's why I quit working there. However, I believe in honest reporting, and the idiot that wrote this article has no idea what he's talking about.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Everything else that the government purchased was the cheapest crap they could buy depending on the bids.

Well shucks, seems to me they need to raise our taxes a little more and purchase a few more higher end vehicles. Why settle for 602,626 vehicles? Might as well make it an even 1,000,000 vehicles.